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Re: NYT on Netscape Crack

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NODE 9e8cdf2cRe: NYT on Netscape Crack
> You could do that, but thats not how C does things. C allocates these
> things on the stack.

Nope.  Just because almost all machines anyone is every going to use
in their lifetimes are stack-based doesn't mean C is stack-based.

The C compiler I once used on a LispMachine had no stack.
	/r$
NODE 0e6e35ecRe: NYT on Netscape Crack
Rich Salz writes:
> > You could do that, but thats not how C does things. C allocates these
> > things on the stack.
> 
> Nope.  Just because almost all machines anyone is every going to use
> in their lifetimes are stack-based doesn't mean C is stack-based.

Effectively the same thing for our purposes, neh?

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